Geoffrey Hodson Quotes
At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
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A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
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Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.
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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
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I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
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I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.
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Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.
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Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?
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It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million.
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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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The freedom of every artist is essential.
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance.
